Web and Instructional Technology

If you want to link to content items within any of the Library databases  you need to make them a persistent link. If you were to copy and paste the URL to a resource from our Library databases into your ANGEL course, it would break the next time your students or you tried to access it because the URL changes. This is why you must create a persistent link.

Thanks to Jennifer Gregor for creating a tutorial on how to create persistent links to library resources so that they can be used in ANGEL. Click on the link below to view the tutorial:

Create persistent links to library resources tutorial

Sometimes your discussion posts can get lost in the sea of student posts within a forum. Would you like your post to stand out amongst all the other student posts?  There are two ways to accomplish this:

• Make your post a different color
• Make your post sticky

Please watch the full tutorial by clicking on the link below which will show you how to accomplish these two tasks:

Making Your Discussion Post More Prominent

If you have extensive comments within the drop box, there is a 2500 character limit.  ANGEL counts HTML code as well as text. This causes real problems if you copy and paste text from MS Word because it will contain all kinds of HTML code that will make your comments exceed the 2500 character limit.

There are number of things you can do to avoid this limit:

• Create your comments in MS Word or Notepad and attach the document to the comments. Watch the video on how to accomplish this task.
• Use Notepad or another plain text editor to create comments. Copying and Pasting from a plain text editor will not create extra HTML code.
• If you use standard comments, you may want to use a tool within the HTML called a “Macro” to easily input these comments. (How to Create a Macro).